Science often brings unexpected fruit. Cloning woolly mammoths may as well.
And so does blowing wind. You never know. Where do you put the limit? Pouring a trillion dollars into war sure has more benefits, like local hiring, finding out about microwaves, cheaper petrol, etc. But is pouring a trillion dollars into that, a good thing?
The moon landing was a propaganda stunt against the USSR. We have no need to revive literal mammoths.